Benefits to you

Benefits of ISECN Membership

The benefits and opportunities available to you as an ISECN member are actually limitless, as you are free to utilize the network for projects as ambitious as your dreams and drive, but some of the more obvious benefits are:

1. Connect with other students and colleagues in Health Promotion
2. Gain valuable experience working on global health promotion projects
3. Boost your resume by taking on a leadership role
4. Learn about activities, conferences and news in health promotion from around the globe
5. Post your bio on the ISECN website
6. Have access to volunteer opportunities for IUHPE conferences
7. Build your publication list by managing streams for VHPO
8. Have your voice heard globally through contributing to our monthly newsletter, Health Promotion Connection

Drinking raw date palm sap contaminated with infected fruit bat saliva or urine is an important mode of Nipah virus transmission to humans in Bangladesh. Bamboo skirts are an effective way to interrupt bat access to the sap. We conducted a study from November 2008 to March 2009 to explore the effectiveness of higher- and […]

Aaron Antonovsky wrote extensively, although disjointedly, about the roles of culture in salutogenesis. This paper provides a synopsis of his work in this arena. A literature review identified those of his English language writings in which culture was a subject, and relevant text segments were analysed using an inductive followed by a deductive method. Using […]

Some 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss due to the unsafe use of personal audio devices, including smartphones, and exposure to damaging levels of sound at noisy entertainment venues such as nightclubs, bars and sporting events, according to WHO. Hearing loss has potentially devastating consequences for physical and mental […]

Use of the same syringe or needle to give injections to more than one person is driving the spread of a number of deadly infectious diseases worldwide. Millions of people could be protected from infections acquired through unsafe injections if all healthcare programmes switched to syringes that cannot be used more than once. For these […]

WHO today delivered 13 tons of medical supplies to the Donetsk region in Ukraine as part of the first UN humanitarian convoy, which brought a total of 62 tons of relief materials. Supplies include HIV and tuberculosis medical products, 612 kg of HIV test systems and 3 tons of drugs to treat infections in people […]